Great Doctor Ling Ran Chapter 354 - Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer

Chapter 354: Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Lu Wenbin carried a large pot in his hands and walked at full speed.

For the past month or so, the Ergency Departnt had undergone a lot of changes so that it could be upgraded into an Ergency dical Center. Even Ling Ran had shifted his focus to writing research papers.

The number of surgeries perford in the Ergency Departnt had plumted, and Lu Wenbin spent almost as much ti in the gym as he did in the kitchen. The effects from it were astonishing. He could even easily do squats while carrying a whole pot of pork trotters, and an empty pot took no effort whatsoever.

When Lu Wenbin arrived at the wareroom behind the Ergency dicine building, he looked around vigilantly. He only took the shortcut and walked through the building site, where construction workers were busy working, to the frontmost part of the wareroom when he saw that no one was looking at him.

The wareroom was being modified into the ward area of the Ergency dical Center. Now that the main structure was almost completed, the construction workers rushed to complete the renovation of the building.

Lu Wenbin went straight to the cafeteria on the second floor of the east side of the wareroom. When he found that the construction of the cafeteria was completed, he was unable to hold himself back from bringing in all his kitchenware.

Unlike the narrow waiting room of the Ergency Departnt, the new kitchen was vast. Now that it was not in operation yet, Lu Wenbin could cook as many pork trotters as he wanted, in whatever fashion he wanted.

Lu Wenbin put down the large pot and opened the window while he was at it. He then turned on the air purifiers on both sides of the kitchen. After he stood and waited for a while at the balcony, most of the foul sll in the kitchen, which was a result of the renovation, was gone.

The renovation carried out in the Ergency dical Center was relatively simple, and the foul sll was not strong to begin with. Lu Wenbin got used to the sll very quickly. He had no choice, as for the past few years, the hospital had been expanding using the sa strategy—constructing the buildings before renovating them. And after operation comnced in those buildings, renovations would be carried out in the existing wards and operating theaters. Even if the Ergency Departnt was not being upgraded into an Ergency dical Center, there would still be renovations in the departnt’s building.

Lu Wenbin inspected his precious pork trotters and picked a few up to make sure that the foul sll did not get onto them. He then placed them one by one into the pot.

The pork trotters were already cleaned. Lu Wenbin rented a house near the market and employed soone just to clean and pay for the pork trotters. Every morning, after Lu Wenbin chose the pork trotters he wanted, he would leave the rest to the person he employed. He would only take over when it was ti to stew and cook the pork trotters.

If Lu Wenbin did not do this, he would not have had the ti to carry out surgeries in the hospital.

After he placed all the pork trotters in the large pot, Lu Wenbin ceremonially took out the stew he prepared and slowly poured it into the pot.

Lu Wenbin could not help but flash a satisfied smile as he watched the dark stew splattering around the pot as they splashed against the white pork trotters.

Lu Wenbin felt the most bliss when he cooked pork trotters, and it was also when ti passed the fastest for him.

Lu Wenbin only turned and called the person he had employed over to help when he was done with all the preparations. He then washed up and quickly went towards the ward area of the Ergency Departnt.

“Wait, have you washed your hands?” Wang Jia stood in the corridor on the left side of the ward area of the Ergency Departnt.

The observation rooms of the Ergency Departnt surrounded the atrium, and they were divided into two wings. After Ling Ran’s treatnt group erged, the entire ward on the left side was assigned to Ling Ran.

And while Huo Congjun and the others were still doubtful over Ling Ran’s abilities when it ca to managent, a glass door, which was used to separate the area from the rest of the Ergency Departnt, appeared at the frontmost part of the left side of the ward area. And young nurses were assigned to stand guard in front of the glass door in groups.

Today, Wang Jia happened to be part of the group.

Even though Lu Wenbin had bought a house and a BMW and was learning the M-Tang technique, at the end of the day, he was only a resident doctor.

Resident Doctor Lu Wenbin gazed at the young nurse in resignation and said, “I just exited the ward area, and didn’t touch anything while I was out.”

“No,” Wang Jia said in an extrely firm tone. “Doctor Ling said that every single doctor must wash his hands whenever they enter or exit this place. Even chief physicians are not excused.”

“I…” Lu Wenbin lowered his head and obediently pressed out so alcohol-based hand sanitizer from the bottle beside the door. He then started rubbing his hands…

“You must wash your hands very thoroughly. The hand sanitizer must cover the entirety of your hands, from your fingers to your wrists.” Wang Jia’s voice was cold, and she inspected Lu Wenbin’s hands like how Lu Wenbin inspected his pig’s hooves.

Lu Wenbin had no choice but to obediently coat his hands with alcohol-based hand sanitizer before entering the ward area.

In the corridor of the ward area, four circulating nurses, who were holding a bottle of alcohol-based hand sanitizer each, were staring at the doctors around them with ferocious gazes.

Lu Wenbin walked quickly with his head lowered.

In reality, mandatory disinfection asures were being carried out in every hospital. So hospitals even enforced it very strictly.

A specialized departnt was even created just for this—the Departnt of Infection Control.

Its full na is the Departnt of Hospital-Acquired Infection Prevention and Control, and was created just to combat nosocomial infections. Its purpose was to make sure that patients did not acquire infection because of dical activities.

One could only imagine the number of patients who acquire nosocomial infections because of dical activities, to the point that such a departnt needed to exist.

However, in reality, the creation of the Departnt of Infection Control was only an administrative action. The efficiency of the Departnt of Infection Control of most hospitals were rather pitiful and did not bring about much positive changes.

And this inefficiency was caused by the dical staff’s lack of cooperation. It was also because everyone in the hospital failed to show persistence in their effort to control nosocomial infection due to a lack of capable leaders.

The role played by the Departnt of Infection Control was a very ticulous one, and it was very hard to trace the source of mishaps that happened to pin the bla on soone. You could say that the tasks carried out by the Departnt of Infection Control were arduous and not rewarding.

Most of the ti, even if the Departnt of Infection Control or the leaders of the hospitals had the intention to carry out strict disinfection asures, it was very hard for them to get the dical staff to cooperate.

However, the mont Ling Ran beca the leader of the Ling Treatnt Group, all the young nurses gave their full cooperation to him when he demanded that they carry out strict disinfection asures.

And in the hospital, if you were to describe the chief surgeons as the kings of the operating theaters, the ward areas other than the operating theaters were ruled by the nurses.

In the wards, doctors and patients were only passersby .

The nurses were the only ones who were always there.

“Have you washed your hands?” A nurse could not help but furrowed her eyebrows when she walked past Lu Wenbin.

“Yes.” Lu Wenbin imdiately extended his hands to show the nurse and flashed a piteous expression. “I washed it so vigorously that even my skin is going to co off.”

“Doctor Ling ntioned that using a small amount of alcohol-based hand sanitizer wouldn’t cause the skin too much harm.” The nurse earnestly corrected Lu Wenbin.

Lu Wenbin flashed a bitter smile. “Even if it causes very little damage, it will damage the skin if we have to wash it day in and out.”

“Is your skin injured?” The nurse looked at Lu Wenbin with furrowed eyebrows.

“Not yet…”

“That ans no.” The nurse firmly cut Lu Wenbin off and said, “You can stand out and call Doctor Ling’s decision into question when you’re injured for real, because Doctor Ling is definitely right.”

Lu Wenbin shook his head. “How do you know that Doctor Ling is definitely right?”

“Why would soone as handso as Doctor Ling get anything wrong?” The young nurse straightened her body, and her tone was earnest and firm.

Lu Wenbin froze for a mont. He did not actually know how to refute her words.

“I’ll go and take a look at a patient.” Lu Wenbin fled the scene before the young nurse started lecturing him and dashed into the nearest ward.

There was a bottle of alcohol-based hand sanitizer on the wall of the ward.

There was a bottle of alcohol-based hand sanitizer beside every hospital bed.

There were bottles of alcohol-based hand sanitizer on the window sills and behind the walls.

“You must disinfect your hands before coming into contact with the patients, and this has to be done before coming into contact with each patient.” Another nurse craned her head inside one of the rooms while she stood in the corridor. She then continued, “Don’t forget the lesson puerperal fever thought us.”

Puerperal fever was an extrely prevalent disease in the nineteenth century, and its frequency of occurrence was a few tis higher among won who gave birth in hospitals compared to the general population. And it was all because doctors were too lazy to carry out disinfection.

This kind of skeleton from the past was what doctors, including Lu Wenbin, tried their best to forget. Lu Wenbin could not help but mutter, “What’s with these responsible nurses and doctors with OCD? So unbearable.”

“Are you refusing to wash your hands?” The young nurse lifted the whistle she was wearing around her neck and was prepared to blow it any ti.

Lu Wenbin chuckled a few tis and decided not to ntion that he had already washed his hands. He took a bottle of alcohol-based hand sanitizer and started washing his hands again.

It was half a minute before he went to the patient.

The patient and his family mbers were pretty happy when they saw how responsible Lu Wenbin was though, and there were smiles on their faces.

Lu Wenbin’s emotions slowly settled down.

For doctors, the washing of hands was only an extrely minor matter. Now that Ling Ran insisted upon it, Lu Wenbin and the others would not deliberately go against Ling Ran.

In only a few days, the Ling Treatnt Group of Yun Hua Hospital’s Ergency Departnt had gotten used to washing their hands with alcohol-based hand sanitizer day in and day out.